Steam overlay is terrible in HDR

[christofin]

Title. Either in HDR PQ mode the overlay is washed out or in SCRGB it's overly saturated. Does nobody at Valve have a single HDR screen to at least test the Steam overlay on? This has been an issue for years.

[AEIDOLONE]

Originalmente postado por Crashed:

Please note this thread is still relevant as Steam Overlay still fails to properly tonemap to HDR framebuffers.

It's so frustrating that all this years I still get an inaccurate washed out/grayish picture while taking a screenshot in a HDR enabled game.

I mean it's almost 2023...It blows my mind that a feature like this is not yet implemented.

[rogermorse]

Well for screenshots I am using this solutions:

1 - Use a 3rd party program that supports HDR for the screenshots (geforce experience, microsoft game bar etc.). This program will normally save a .jxr and a .png file. If the PNG file looks fine (SDR), skip to step 3
2 - Tonemap the JXR file to SDR using a software such as ReaCoonverter to get a decent SDR picture from the HDR screenshot taken in step 1
3 - Import the SDR converted screenshots to steam using SteaScree

At least this way you have your screenshots in your steam account. There is no way at the moment to have HDR screenshots in Steam (and obviously also not take them) but for the moment this is the best compromise I found...and when you get used to it it's a matter of a couple clicks and 30 seconds of your time post game session or every once in a while.

And for the overlay....I got used to it, but I prefer when the overlay is washed out compared to the extra super contrast one.

[AEIDOLONE]

Originalmente postado por rogermorse:

Well for screenshots I am using this solutions:

1 - Use a 3rd party program that supports HDR for the screenshots (geforce experience, microsoft game bar etc.). This program will normally save a .jxr and a .png file. If the PNG file looks fine (SDR), skip to step 3
2 - Tonemap the JXR file to SDR using a software such as ReaCoonverter to get a decent SDR picture from the HDR screenshot taken in step 1
3 - Import the SDR converted screenshots to steam using SteaScree

At least this way you have your screenshots in your steam account. There is no way at the moment to have HDR screenshots in Steam (and obviously also not take them) but for the moment this is the best compromise I found...and when you get used to it it's a matter of a couple clicks and 30 seconds of your time post game session or every once in a while.

And for the overlay....I got used to it, but I prefer when the overlay is washed out compared to the extra super contrast one.

I have a workaround as well. I use Windows Game Bar to make screenshots in HDR games. It makes automatically two screenshot files - a HDR (.jxr) and non-HDR (.jpg). The .jpg looks good and I can just put it into the appropriate Steam folder (together with a 200x200 cropped picture for the thumbnail) to get it displayed in the Steam Screenshots window.

But that's not the point. I don't want to use all those steps. I just want to press F12 and make a screenshot in a HDR game.

If they don't want to implement HDR in this system why just not make a SDR screenshot with accurate colors instead. But no, they either totally disabled it or let you make those washed out ones.

Stupid.

[50shots-1kill (Corpsemaker)]

2023 bump. Still not fixed. Still looks like ass.

[DevonCM]

Do we need to wait for a Steam Deck 2 with HDR before this will be addressed? :-/

[Me-no-Satsu]

*Bump* Still an issue on Windows 11.

[Arokhantos]

Originalmente postado por WoodenDann:

They will fix it later

No screenshot support
No HDR support.
the least it could do is take a SDR screenshot that looks like SDR but it cannot even do that.
It just look washed out.
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2958494243

[Crashed]

Originalmente postado por Me-no-Satsu:

*Bump* Still an issue on Windows 11.

Auto HDR is fine however, as the game still uses a SDR compatible framebuffer. Native HDR is still incompatible with Steam Overlay, and Windows 11 takes a "hands off" approach to the issue so as not to cause any new issues.

[S_Grez]

April 2023, still not fixed.

[Arokhantos]

HDR is pretty much useable at desktop atleast for AMD users not sure about Nvidia users, atleast screenshots + steamoverlay supporting HDR should be possible.

[Crashed]

Originalmente postado por Arokhantos™:

HDR is pretty much useable at desktop atleast for AMD users not sure about Nvidia users, atleast screenshots + steamoverlay supporting HDR should be possible.

NVIDIA looks fine on my Windows 11 desktop, running the latest Game Ready Drivers on RTX 3080.

Overlay is still broken of course in games that use native HDR.

[Dr zesty]

Im encountering this issue with Diablo 4, not just the steam overlay but any kind of overlay, including discord and riva tuner. Not really a big deal for me but it’s annoying that the colors are so over saturated and weird. When I turn off hdr in game it goes back to normal.

3080 ti, LG C1

[christofin]

Originalmente postado por Dr. Zesty:

Im encountering this issue with Diablo 4, not just the steam overlay but any kind of overlay, including discord and riva tuner. Not really a big deal for me but it’s annoying that the colors are so over saturated and weird. When I turn off hdr in game it goes back to normal.

3080 ti, LG C1

Are you adding Diablo IV as a non-Steam game and using the Steam overlay? Not sure how else Diablo IV would relate.

Not all overlays have this issue. Gamebar is perfect with HDR.

[DoktorMetal]

I'm gonna necro this one, since I just almost got blinded from my HDR screen when opening a browser window in overlay.

[Arokhantos]

Originalmente postado por DoktorMetal:

I'm gonna necro this one, since I just almost got blinded from my HDR screen when opening a browser window in overlay.

This is why SDR content brightness exist as option inside Windows, you set screen to 100% then set sdr content brightness to your SDR brightness, it just wont fix the overlay problem cos it lacks tone maping